India

Not leaving anything to chance, Home Minister P Chidambaram has written to 40 prominent politicians warning them that they could face terror attacks during the election campaign and asked them not to take chances with their security.

Amid chanting of mantras, breaking of coconuts and a tilak ceremony, the desi Air Force One took to the skies on its inaugural VVIP
flight on Wednesday, with President Pratibha Patil heading for Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

Intelligence sources claim they have thwarted a plot to kill BJP leader Varun Gandhi, sources told Times of India that Dawood aide Chhota Shakeel had ordered the elimination of Varun Gandhi on the 28th of March, the day he was to surrender at the ...

Holding out an olive branch to partners who have parted company with the Congress and are now actively opposing it, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the “last word” had not yet been uttered on ties with estranged allies who might yet...

On Board The PM's Aircraft: Manmohan Singh strode on the red carpeted tarmac, climbed the stairs leading up to his private suite in the Boeing
747, waved back within a minimalist arc as he is wont to, and went in. He was 30 minutes late, but look...

Varun Gandhi's hate speech has gained a great amount of media coverage and people from all walks of life hold a view on the incident, one way or the either. Has the Varun Gandhi controversy created voter polarisation? Will the Hindus be on one sid...

The Election Commission on Monday issued notice to Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh for allegedly threatening the Mainpuri District Magistrate-cum-Returning Officer, S. Minishti, for the cancellation of the gun licences of SP workers.

As campaigning for the polls enters the decisive stage, JD(U) chief and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar seems unperturbed by the coming together of Lalu
Prasad, Ram Vilas Paswan and Mulayam Singh Yadav. Not because he — unlike others — doesn't aspire to be...

An election victory may not depend on the skills of a minor street orator, but political parties in Tamil Nadu take this business rather
seriously. In fact, the range of their artillery is a matter of pride for every Dravidian party.

Two trusted members of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's coterie - former chief secretary Neera Yadav and her husband Mahendra Singh Yadav -left him for the saffron camp on Sunday. The high-profile couple was inducted into the BJP by party presiden...

BJP on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who'll be travelling to London on April 2 to attend the G-20 summit, to use the opportunity to impress upon the western powers to share information about India's wealth stashed up in Swiss banks a...